Good advice to remember! Renea -----Original Message----- From: Dorothy Gray <rogrvdot@harborside.com> To: TNSUMNER-L@rootsweb.com <TNSUMNER-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 1:00 AM Subject: [TNSUMNER] PROVE IT >Hi, Sherry: > >Whether you are looking at the LDS data, or a census, death or birth >certificate, or any other document, the information it has on it is what >the person THOUGHT to be correct when he/she furnished the information for >the document/record. For example, if my sister were in charge of my >father's funeral and she couldn't remember when his exact birth date >was..or exactly where he was born...then she would make a guess, and put >that down. Same way as when a census was taken. This goes on even today, as >in the past. > >Regarding the LDS files, the same applies. Anyone who has researched their >family or someone else's, can submit their data to the large database of >the Mormon Church in Salt Lake City. (Also called Church of Jesus >Christ-Latter Day Saints.) That information will have some errors in it >somewhere along the line. > >But, like Joyce says, it may be a useful roadmap for you to then go ahead >and try to prove which is correct. Keep searching other documents, write >down your sources, and maybe you will come up with an answer later on. >Keep asking questions, and stay on these lists as someone ELSE may have the >info you are after. > >Good luck. >Dot > > > -------------------------------- End of TNPERRY-D Digest V00 Issue #13 ************************************* From root@lists6.rootsweb.com Tue Aug 1 19:01:59 2000 Return-Path: <root@lists6.rootsweb.com> Received: from lists6.rootsweb.com (lists6.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.125]) by listsearches.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e7221xw18571 for <indexer@listsearches.rootsweb.com>; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 19:01:59 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by lists6.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e72220B01680 for indexer@listsearches.rootsweb.com; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 19:02:00 -0700 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 19:02:00 -0700 Message-Id: <200008020202.e72220B01680@lists6.rootsweb.com> From: TNPERRY-D-request@rootsweb.com Subject: TNPERRY-D Digest V00 #13 X-Loop: TNPERRY-D@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <TNPERRY-D@rootsweb.com> archive/volume00/13 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: TNPERRY-D@rootsweb.com Reply-To: TNPERRY-L@rootsweb.com ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain TNPERRY-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 13 Today's Topics: #1 [TNPERRY] Fw: [TNSUMNER] PROVE IT ["Renea Burkholder" <grburk@usit.ne] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from TNPERRY-D, send a message to TNPERRY-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too.